Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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